Adobe Premiere Elements offers amateur and home moviemakers the opportunity to work with editing tools as powerful as those packed into Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the top tools on the market. Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies offers these same users not only a guide through all the how-to steps of using the software, but also a valuable reference on how to best apply the tools to a great video project.
Author Keith Underdahl, also author of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies, is an experienced video editor who understands what new Premiere users need to know and how to best explain the topics. In this book, Keith describes:
Best practices for shooting quality video
Picking the clips you want to keep and getting them into your computer
How to use Premiere Elements' editing tools to add an opening credits page, transitions between clips, sound, music, and ending credits.
Adding special effects using only computer trickery
Putting your finished project on a DVD, videotape, or the Internet
Covering more ground than the typical expanded users manuals you find in bookstores, Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies is the book you need to get you through your first video-editing project as well as to return to whenever you hit rough spots and need instant help.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Adequate, but not outstanding:
When Adobe made the decision to no longer include any form of manual with its products, it strengthened the already existing industry of publishing "how to" books for Adobe products. Adobe has a long reputation of producing powerful applications with weak support. Adobe Premiere Elements 8 is a very capable video editing application (with many other features as well). It is, however, not intuitive and many of its features are buried or otherwise obscured. The first thing that's truck me about this... more info
Be careful when ordering:
I ordered a use copy of this book and was ship the earlier version. Watch in checking out make sure you are getting Elements 8 not Premiere Element which cover Element 6 and lower.
Very Helpful Material:
I've been using this book along with editing some 45 year old movies that I digitized. The way I digitized was to use a digital camcorder and record the projected image using a 50 year old 8mm projector. Premiere Elements 8 for Dummies didn't mention this procedure but it was an inexpensive way to digitize old film. PE 8 for Dummies helped me start editing within a very short period of time. It was clear on how to cut and decrease the size of clips, move and reposition clips, and incorporate transitions.... more info
Great instructions for Premiere Elements *-Note it's not for other versions:
I noticed some confusion in the reviews of those who had hoped this was for other versions of Premiere Elements. However, as the title dictates, the copy I received is copyrighted for 2010 so you won't find the old info within. If, however, you are like me and looking specifically for something to uncover the mysteries in Premiere Elements 8...this is the right manual. I gotta admit I was shocked that no manual came with Premiere Elements 8 and that they even wanted to charge for some of the few... more info
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